Granddaughter Essie... makes candy to sell and loves her decent but not very bright husband, but mainly she dances. A few steps across a room are never anything less than a series of sweetly absurd entrechats, arabesques, spins, and bends. Melissa Rain Anderson is lovable and graceful and enchantingly funny.

Michael Lasser
Rochester City Newspaper

Clearly, Anderson’s Essie has us at hello; you can’t miss the malfunctioning ballerina with the outdated Shirley Temple curls who pirouettes into every scene.

Marcia Morphy
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle